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Kathy Lynn
Emerson writes in several different genres and under several different names,
including Kaitlyn
Dunnett and Kate Emerson. As Kathy Lynn Emerson she is best known for
historical mysteries, including the Face Down Mystery Series featuring sixteenth-century gentlewoman,
herbalist, and sleuth, Susanna, Lady Appleton, the Diana Spaulding 1888 Quartet,
and her
Agatha-award-winning nonfiction, How to Write Killer Historical
Mysteries.
She has also
written children's books and romance novels.
At present
she is semi-retired and working on producing omnibus editions of backlist
titles.
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NEW
ISBN 979-8-227-97855-4
$18.99
ebook
ISBN 979-8-227-88201-1
$5.99
Lady Appleton's World: The Complete Short Stories is a collection of sixteen short stories first published between 1999 and 2015 and newly edited by the author. They feature the adventures of Susanna, Lady Appleton, sixteenth-century gentlewoman, herbalist, and sleuth, and other characters from Kathy Lynn Emerson's ten-book Face Down Mystery Series. This is the first time all sixteen have appeared in a single volume. Illustrated with eight pen and ink drawings by Linda Weatherly S and accompanied by author notes, the stories included are: "The Body in the Dovecote," "Much Ado about Murder," "The Rubaiyat of Nicholas Baldwin," "Lady Appleton and the London Man," "Lady Appleton and the Cautionary Herbal," "The Riddle of the Woolsack," "Lady Appleton and the Cripplegate Chrisoms," "Lady Appleton and the Bristol Crystals," "Encore for a Neck Verse," "Confusions Most Monstrous," "Death by Devil's Turnips," "Any Means Short of Murder," "A Wondrous Violent Motion," "Lady Appleton and the Creature of the Night," "The Curse of the Figure Flinger," and "Lady Appleton and the Yuletide Hogglers."
For more information on new print editions of all ten novels in the Face Down series and new print and e-book editions of the three Mistress Jaffrey Mysteries click here: Face Down Mysteries
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RECENTLY
PUBLISHED
The Maine
Quartet
four romance
novels and a bonus short story
set in rural
Maine at the end of the last century
ebook
ISBN 979 8224 884 797
$8.99
trade paperback
ISBN 979 8224 198 184
$25.99
The Maine Quartet
These four romance novels, originally published between 1989 and 1997, have been newly edited by the author and are now collected for the first time in this omnibus edition.
In Cloud Castles, originally published under the pseudonym Kaitlyn Gorton, fate brings an optimistic Kendra Jennings and a cynical Alex Moreau together on a lonely country road in 1989. A Deputy Sheriff, Alex thinks Kendra is keeping secrets and he's right, but she's telling the truth about the peculiar things that have happened to her since she moved into a house deep in the Maine woods. When her life, and that of Alex's teenaged son, are threatened, he has more than his duty to do. Romantic Times wrote that "both plot and characterization keep us nicely entertained."
In Love Thy Neighbor, Linnea Bryan returns to Maine
to discover her roots and encounters the unexpected in her next-door neighbor,
Marsh Austin, a retired cop who now raises and races sled dogs. When she
decides to stay in Austin's Crossing to renovate her grandfather's house, Marsh
is suspicious of her motives but very attracted to her. Romantic Times
called this one "A rollicking good read!"
In The Rapunzel Trap, formerly published as Hearth, Home and Hope under the pseudonym Kaitlyn Gorton, Hope Rowan suspects fairy tale character Rapunzel had agoraphobia, just as she does. Is Cooper Sanford, former high school bad boy, the handsome prince who can rescue her from her tower? To persuade Hope to help him with his motherless daughter, he's willing to give it a try, but he may be asking too much in return. Rendezvous called it "fast paced with funny, interesting characters—people you can care about."
In Family Lies, formerly published as Separated Sisters under the pseudonym Kaitlyn Gorton, Ariadne Palmer, part owner of an antiquarian bookshop in Maine, doesn't believe Clay Franklin when he tells her she has a twin sister and grandparents she never knew about. As a lawyer, Clay has sworn not to tell her the whole truth about her family, but his immediate and growing attraction to her argues against keeping that promise. Romantic Times called it "A warmhearted tale . . . with many touching moments."
As a bonus, this collection also includes a short story, "The Boston Post Cane."
for
more information, click here
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Death of an
Intelligence Gatherer
a mystery
set in 1553 in England and on the Continent
e-book: ISBN
979-8223-73599-1
$5.99
trade
paperback: ISBN 979-8223-99450-3
$15.99
Death of an Intelligence Gatherer begins in 1553 when Cordell
Ingram, a young English gentlewoman hoping to escape religious persecution, accompanies her
father into exile in Strasbourg during the reign of Mary Tudor. A short time
later, her life is turned upside down for a second time by her father's sudden
death. Cordell is certain he was poisoned, and that his murder has something to
do with the intelligence he has been gathering about a Protestant plot to
overthrow the queen. To find justice for him, and to see that the information
he discovered reaches his allies in England before the date set for a
rebellion, she agrees to marry Roger Allington, an old family friend who
fortuitously (perhaps too fortuitously?) appears on the scene with the claim
that her father arranged a betrothal between them before he left England.
Uncertain she can trust Roger, Cordell runs away on the day of the wedding. Her
journey home is fraught with peril, especially after she is caught by one of
the men she believes was responsible for her father's death. This time, there
is no escape from marriage or from her deepest suspicions about her new
husband.
for more
information click here
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TRADE
PAPERBACK EDITIONS
REVISED REISSUES OF
NONFICTION BY KATHY LYNN EMERSON
ISBN 979-8223-76137-3
$15.99
ISBN 979-8223-18586-4
$15.99
For more information click here
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THE VALENTINE VEILLEUX MYSTERIES
three short stories and a novella
available in print and e-book formats
e-book: ISBN 979-8-201-43879-1
$5.99
trade paperback: ISBN 979-8-201-74301-7
$10.99
The three short stories and a novella that
comprise The Valentine Veilleux Mysteries feature professional photographer Valentine Veilleux as an
amateur sleuth. Val specializes in creating calendars for organizations to use
for fundraising purposes. She is a free spirit who travels the country in a RV,
custom-designed to serve as both home and workplace, with her three-legged cat,
Lucky, for company. In the course of each job she takes on, she becomes
involved with a group of people who know each other and often share dark
secrets. When a member of such a group is murdered, Val has the advantage of an
outsider's perspective combined with an insider's knowledge of the suspects,
while her photographs provide clues the police have missed. Val first appeared
in Kaitlyn Dunnett's ninth Liss MacCrimmon Mystery, The Scottie Barked at Midnight, and reappeared in the second book (Clause & Effect) of
her Deadly Edits Mysteries.
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I KILL PEOPLE FOR A LIVING:
A COLLECTION OF ESSAYS BY A WRITER OF COZY MYSTERIES
available in print and e-book formats
for more information go to nonfiction
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Kathy Lynn Emerson's other titles include
Mysteries, Nonfiction, Romances,
and Children's Books
Links to More Information
Kathy Lynn Emerson's bio
page
Complete
list of Kathy Lynn Emerson's books and short stories
books
written as Kate Emerson
books
written as Kaitlyn Dunnett
books
in the Face Down Mystery Series (including the
Mistress Jaffrey Mysteries)
books
in the Diana Spaulding 1888 Quartet
the
stand alone historical mystery The Finder
of Lost Things
romance novels
new editions of Kathy's Children's
Books
Kathy's nonfiction titles
Kathy's Genealogy Page
(links to the biography of her grandfather, family histories, and
stories that ended up in novels)
Click here
for Sanford Emerson's page (Kathy's husband) and information
on Well
Hell, The Yarns of Constable Bobby Wing of Skedaddle Gore, Maine
If you want
to keep up to date on Kathy/Kaitlyn's latest writing news, check out Kaitlyn
Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson on Facebook.
Kathy
also blogs twice a month at Maine
Crime Writers
contact: kathylynnemerson@roadrunner.com